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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Writing Process Blog Tour

Writing Process Blog Tour

A fellow iwosc member and friend, Vickey Kalambakaltagged me for the Writing Process Blog Tour. A blog hop where
authors are asked to share their insights into the writing life. Below I have
answered the four questions and tagged fellow authors and bloggers

What are you working on?
I’m working on three stories right now. One is a sequel to my book, Portrait of Our Marriage.

The second story is a very emotional one
for me. It is a nonfiction about self loathing and wanting to die. This one
will be my next book out.

The third story I’m working on is about
family, overcoming hardships, and pets.

I also try to keep busy doing interviews
and creative writing prompts for my blog.

How does your work differ from others of
its genre? I wanted to write about todays hidden addiction,
as seen through the eyes of a wife who is living with her husbands escalating
obsession with pornography. I would like to classify this book as a fictional
memoir but could never find that listed as a genre. Although the story is
fiction, much research went into it. I also went to great lengths to find women
who had or were living with someone who suffered with this addiction to bring
as much truth and reality to the story as I could.

Why do you write what you do? My
Mom and Aunt both have a part in the stories I pick. My Mom wanted me to write
from the heart. Stories with real emotion, while my Aunt wanted my writing to
stir the pot. Stories that would stir things up and get people talking even if
they were disagreeing.

As for a more personal reason, I believe every
person has a different story in them and for them. There are chapters in each
of our lives that need different authors to tell them. Readers download or
reach for books for different reasons. Different experiences and different
times in our lives opens us up to different reading possibilities and stories
to be told. A reader may be looking for sci-fi, mystery, fairytale, or happily
ever after love stories, but sometimes the reader needs something different. That’s
when the blatantly real, sometimes heartbreaking, even dark, story may fit
their need. I’m talking about a story that takes them behind closed doors and
doesn’t fit into the formatted structure that many books follow. Not all lives
are comfortable and easy, packaged perfectly in what is accepted, and so for
now . . . those are the stories I write.

How does your writing process work? Read,
scribble, ask; repeat.

I am a dreamer. It would be nice to just
simply sleep but my mind rarely goes quietly into the night. I see and dream stories.
It is like watching a movie. When I wake up I try to write down what I
remember. That’s when the notes and scribble come in handy. I am also a day
dreamer. I can be walking, watching TV, even reading a book, and another story
will unfold in my minds eye. And that explains the tons of unedited notes and
shorts I have written in notebooks.

I’ve always enjoyed writing. As a child I
made up poems for friends. In high school I wrote romance stories that would
have been perfect for True Confessions, purely from what I’d read and my
imagination, of courseJ
As I grew older I wrote lyrics and stories for my children.

Now, to play the meme
forward, I would like to introduce you
to three more writers.

C.J. GALAWAY

C.J. Galaway was born in a
small town in Pennsylvania in the peak of the summer season.It wasn’t until three months later she would
meet her family through adoption and become the youngest of three
children.Though since her two older
siblings are at least twenty years older, it was like being an only child.

C.J. grew up in a world of
adults in a neighborhood with no children her age to play with, so her mother
instilled in her a love of reading.She
couldn’t imagine a time she wasn’t reading.“I grew up without computers, PS3 or XBOX, and cable T.V.,” she laughs.“So my favorite way to pass the time was to
lose myself in a good book.I could
easily read three to four a week.”

School was never that
important to her, some studies came easy but for the most part it was boring
for her.She was the quiet kid who sat
in the back of your junior/senior high school classes doing anything but what
the teacher wanted her to do.Although
she would develop a passion for learning and return to college later in life to
earn her bachelor’s degree from California University of Pennsylvania.

It was in junior high she
started putting pen to paper and writing down what she imagined in her
mind.An English teacher encouraged her
to keep writing after enjoying a story she had written for extra credit over
the holidays.“I had played with imaginary
friends as a child and would lay out these elaborate scenarios in my mind for
what would happen that day,” C.J. recalls.“It was easy to transfer that planning from my play time onto paper.”

It is from that love or
reading and an over active imagination in childhood that the idea for her first
novel Bite Marks was born…

The art form I create when
writing is much more interesting than anything you will ever know or learn
about me. However, since you ask, I have lived in Tennessee and Georgia my
entire life, except for one “lost summer” spent in Los Angeles. My first
published stories were for a local underground rock publication in Nashville.
Since then, I have published articles on music, fashion, art, travel and
history.

October 2013 saw the
launch of a novel collaboration, SEPTEMBER ENDS, contemporary fiction
laced with romance, erotic and supernatural elements, bound by poetry. SEPTEMBER
ENDS has been labeled an “Indie Sensation” due the critical reception
and international recognition the novel has received.It has been awarded Best Independently
Published Romance by the peer recommended eFestival of Words. The book has been
downloaded in every Amazon domain on the planet. It has achieved #1 status on
Amazon for World Literature, #1 in British Poetry, #1 in Artistic Erotica and
#1 in Contemporary Poetry.

September 23, 2014 will
see the launch of SEPTEMBER FIRST,
pre-quel to SEPTEMBER ENDS. It is
the next addition to the September Stories - the story of English poets, Jack
O. Savage and Indie Shadwick.

Gemma Wilford is a freelance writer from Blyth,
Northumberland, where she lives with her husband. She is author to children’s
adventure story The Ruby of Egypt and blogs at Missuswolf.wordpress.com, where
you can follow her writing journey. Gemma is in the editing stages of her first
chick-lit novel as well as ghost-writing a historic novel.

Ruby finds herself being dragged by her over
excited and rather embarrassing parents on a sight-seeing holiday to Egypt.
Viewing the pyramids is the last thing a fourteen year old girl wants to be
doing when she could be basking in the glorious sunshine by the pool instead.
Her disappointment soon turns to delight when she curiously follows a black cat
inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, where upon entering she is mysteriously
transported back in time to Ancient Egypt. Aided by a talking feline. Guided by
a dragonfly. Protected by a Falcon headed God. Ruby must embrace an important
mission that will not only challenge her ability to amend her stroppy attitude,
but will change the purpose of her life forever.

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I am a mother, a sister, an author, a cat, dog, and pet lover and most of all a lover of life who is thankful for all my blessings. I find myself in a place many consider to be "midlife". I see this time as new beginnings and new opportunities! No matter where you are in your life, NEVER GIVE UP!